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Means to an End

Episode number: 1

Overview: After years in solitary confinement, James Robertson admits to murdering his new cellmate as an escape to the better conditions on death row.

Killer in the Eyes of the Law

Episode number: 2

Overview: Kenneth Foster's death sentence is commuted just hours before his execution, but he asserts that his punishment under an unusual Texas law is unfair.

The Mockingbird

Episode number: 3

Overview: Raised in an environment of drug addiction and crime, teenager Justin Dickens commits murder but disputes the prosecutor's version of events.

Sympathy for the Devil

Episode number: 4

Overview: Sentenced for a triple murder linked by police to Satanism, Miguel Angel Martinez becomes the youngest person ever on death row in Texas.

Intended Evil

Episode number: 5

Overview: After shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new lover, Charles Thompson is charged with manslaughter -- until his ex dies due to a hospital error.

Declared Competent

Episode number: 6

Overview: No one -- including David Lewis himself -- disputes that he committed murder. But Lewis's mental fitness remains in doubt despite his death sentence.

Family Affair

Episode number: 7

Overview: High on a drug that fuels his paranoia, Deandra Buchanan fatally shoots his aunt, stepfather and girlfriend -- a crime he claims he can't recall.

Hunted

Episode number: 8

Overview: Robert Shafer and a friend target a same-sex couple in a robbery, but their crime spins out of control into kidnapping and double murder.

Living with the Consequences

Episode number: 9

Overview: Teenage drug abuser Joshua Nelson murders a friend in cold blood to steal his car, but other shocking motivations for the crime emerge at his trial.

A Matter of Life and Death

Episode number: 10

Overview: Convicted murderer Wayne Doty admits his guilt but requests that his execution be carried out by electric chair, a method no longer used in Florida.